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Yesterday, September 8, 2001, at 9:46:40 PM Eastern Time the Unix clock hit 1,000,000,000 seconds. Unix recognizes the midnight of January 1, 1970 as "zero" time, and it's from that epoch that it counts it's seconds. Fortunatly changing to 1 billion doesn't have any adverse affects on comptuer systems, so there wasn't any Y2K like concerns. Anyways, it's just one of those things that might show up in a trivia contest somewhere.
Check out Drempels, it's a program that makes your Windows background "move" as you use your comptuer. It looks really, really cool when you use it, and can also be used as a screensaver.
I watched Sneakers again for the manyith time last night. Gotta love the movie. It also has a lot of good quotes like that "There's a war out there, old friend, a world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets, it's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think, it's all about the information." And it's so true.
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